Tired of getting beat up and decided to make your own armor, huh? Let this Armorsmith leveling guide help you find your way! Hopefully, your journey to 60 won’t leave you with dents! First page is very long – but you can use our quick scroll to: Basics | Leveling begins!

Before you begin…

Where is the Armorsmith Guild? How to become an Armorsmith? You can become a Armorsmith by visiting the Armorsmiths Guild in Limsa. If you have at least L10 in any combat class – you’re good to start hammerin’!

Ok so we’re in the middle of updating ALL crafting guides – We recommend the use of a few guides during your leveling process, in varied current state of usefulness:

Crafting General Leveling Tips: This guide was made back right after beta. It’s not updated, but it’s missing two key features: Ixaland Challenge Log. (Old but still useful) (Needs some Mahiko Updates!)

Crafting Gear Guide: is still useful, but written a long time ago. It’s messy but contains a great table as to when you can and should update core pieces. (Old guide, kinda messy) (Needs some Mahiko Updates!)

“What is the Courier, Reverse Courier Cycle?” A courier levequest starts from your Hometown (In ARMs case Limsa) and ends in the local levemete (In this tiers case Red Rooster Stead). The idea is to get, complete, get, complete in a circle to maximize the EXP of your travel time.

So ARM 01 tier – it’s getting the quest from Limsa to submit 3x Bronze Plate in Red Rooster Stead, then taking the reverse courier quest from Red Rooster Stead and then submitting 1x Bronze Alembic in Limsa. This, by the way. is the fastest+least hassle way to get out of the early tiers.

“How do I get to Red Rooster Stead!?” It’s a non-aetheryte town outside Limsa. Just take the Aethernet to XXX gate and walk a bit east.

The other way to spend leves in these low tiers is to “spam the best single leve”. In this tiers case, is to buy materials from the ARM supplier and craft>submit Bronze Rivets in Limsa.

ARM is a bit special… You can begin your early levels (and subsequently the beginning of every tier) by crafting as many Bronze Ingot/Rings/Rivets and Plates as soon as they’re available to craft. Even quick synthing 20-99 of each shouldn’t be too expensive. This method is great to preserve you much needed levequests, and should be taken advantage of in this early phase (for a tiny tradeoff in gil). In case you’ll ignore this little section, don’t worry – I’ll be sure to repeat myself in future tiers, hehe.

Like I said, you can do this much easier/lazier if you buy completed Bronze Ingots from Limsa Lower Decks (8,11).

Again reminding you about my comment about Ingots/Rings/Rivets/Plates from previous tier.

Courier <-> Reverse Courier cycle: Nothing notable about the items here… Both of them have materials that are available from the ARM Supplier.

Or the best single: Amateurs Skillet is the easiest to craft, and least hassle amongst the bunch here. While it doesn’t really matter which single you choose here, skillet definitely wins by a few inches.